SENIOR Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporations (SSACTAC), has kicked against the passage of the N6.1 billion budget for the Nigeria Communications Commission by the House of Representatives for registration of SIM cards in the country, describing the budget as outrageous.

FOR the second time in two weeks, Edo State government, weekend, shut down the multi-billion dollars Federal Government’s Independent Power Plant, IPP, at Ihovor, Benin City, over failure of the Japanese contractors handling the project to remit its backlog of Pay-As- You-Earn, PAYE, taxes.

Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has declared his readiness to accord due recognition to traditional rulers in the implementation of his administration’s programmes and policies.

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has said that it would revoke the licenses of any radio or television station that allowed its medium to be used for negative campaigns or denied opposition politicians access to their media.

THE sprawling Redemption Camp of the Redeemed Christian Church of God along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, is already bursting with activities as thousands of visitors have started trooping in for the commencement of the 13th edition of the Holy Ghost Congress, an annual spiritual retreat instituted by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye as part of his transformation of the church that started as a 12-member group then known as Egbe Ogo Oluwa (Glory of God Society.).

If we believe, we can achieve everything,
Including the impossible. This I know.
So let’s lift up our heads, raise up the flags,
Scream like you are born to win,
This is the sign of victory.’
R. Kelly

THE emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the Northern consensus candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primaries has been attended by much controversy. It generated widespread comments from a cross section of the Nigerian pubic. Most of these comments were uncomplimentary, and sometimes, utterly detracting.

THE Nigerian Army, the flagship of the Nigerian Armed Forces, is one national institution that has totally and successfully re-branded itself. Depending on the defence and military needs of a nation, one branch of the armed forces or the other takes the driver’s seat. In Great Britain, it is the Royal Navy that occupies this enviable position.

IT is one thing for the public to admit the war against corruption is lost (some say it never begun); it is another for a top anti_corruption chief to accept the efforts to date are futile.

AHEAD of 2011 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state have begun a reconciliatory move to woo all aggrieved members of the party from defecting to the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation , NDIC, has commenced the compilation of the list of Managing Directors and top management staff of the failed microfinance banks whose licences were recently withdrawn by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, with a view to prosecuting them

A law seeking to regulate the competitiveness of all businesses in Nigeria is underway from the House of Representatives.

THE Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, condemned the insistence of the National Assembly to amend provisions of Section 87 of the 2010 Electoral Act to confer automatic members of the National Executive Committees of political parties on all federal legislators despite public outcry against it.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ebonyi State, weekend, unanimously passed a ruling barring aspirants contesting the senatorial seat from where Governor Martins Elechi hails from as well as Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency.

Yakubu Mohammed is a journalism icon who was part of the quartet that revolutionized the pen profession in the early eighties. He has lived in the shadows of his famous by line at least until now.